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Crock Pot Beef Tips and Gravy

Crock Pot Beef Tips and Gravy for the win!

The slow cooker (a.k.a. “Crock Pot”) is the busy person’s best friend. You can get a good meal on the table for yourself and your family. Also, who needs all the dirty dishes cluttering their sinks on work days? I have enough to worry about and I actually want to spend time with my family rather than cooking and cleaning for the few hours a day we all have together. So dust off your slow cookers and make this Crock Pot Beef Tips and Gravy and feel good that you did a good days work and managed to put food on the table for the people you love.

Note: I am using a Flat Iron cut of Beef Chuck Roast. Any chuck roast will work. I got a great deal at Kroger on this so that’s why I went with this particular cut. Also, you can purchase pre-cut stew meat (like the picture below) to save on time.

Directions:

In your 5 quart slow cooker, combine dry onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup and beef broth. Whisk to combine (don’t worry if there are lumps, they will come out as it cooks.)

Cut beef into about 1 1/2-inch cubes. Sprinkle lemon pepper seasoning on beef. Add meat to crock pot and give it all a good stir.

Cover and cook on low for at least 6-8 hours.

Once it’s ready, you can work on the gravy. Now, you can serve this up just as it is when it is ready. But I know some folks like a thicker gravy and it couldn’t be easier to make. In a medium pot, melt two tablespoons of butter. Once it is melted, add in about 3 heaping tablespoons of flour. Whisk it together until smooth. In French cooking terminology, this is called a “roux” (pronounced “roo”.)

Then pour in 2 cups of the beef broth mixture into the butter/flour mixture. What I like to do is scoop all the beef tips out of the crock pot and put them in a bowl or on a plate. Then pour 2 cups of the beef broth mixture into a measuring cup.

Whisk it together until smooth, then bring the heat up to high (while whisking briskly the whole time.) It should quickly begin to thicken. Once it gets to your desired thickness, take it off the heat and pour it back into your crock pot. Then add the beef tips back in and stir well.

Then serve over rice, mashed potatoes or egg noodles!

Cook’s note: If you don’t have cream of mushroom soup, you can substitute cream of chicken. But I will tell you that neither my husband and I enjoy mushrooms and we enjoy this. You don’t taste any mushrooms as an ingredient in this.

Also, you can usually find the packs of onion soup mix in the aisle where all the other canned soups are located in your grocery store.

Enjoy!

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Crock Pot Beef Tips and Gravy

Prep Time15minutes

Cook Time8hours

Total Time8hours15minutes

Servings4-6

AuthorThe Country Cook

Ingredients

1 1/2lbs. beef chuck roast

1 1/2tbsp. lemon pepper seasoningoptional

1package of dry onion soup mix

1can of cream of mushroom souplower sodium

1ozcan of beef broth14 ., low sodium

Instructions

In your 5 quart slow cooker, combine dry onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup and beef broth. Whisk to combine (don't worry if there are lumps, they will come out as it cooks).

Cut beef into about 1 1/2-inch cubes.

Sprinkle lemon pepper seasoning on beef.

Add meat to crock pot and give it all a good stir.

Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.

Once it's ready, you can work on the gravy.

Now, you can serve this up just as it is when it is ready or you can easily thicken up the gravy part.

In a medium pot, melt two tablespoons of butter.

Once it is melted, add in about 3 heaping tablespoons of flour.

Whisk it together until smooth.

Then pour in 2 cups of the beef broth mixture into the butter/flour mixture.

Scoop out all the beef bits and set aside.

Then pour 2 cups of the beef broth mixture into a measuring cup.

Whisk it again until smooth, then bring the heat up to high (while whisking briskly the whole time.)

It should quickly begin to thicken.

Once it gets to your desired thickness, take it off the heat and pour it back into your crock pot.

ok, I am seriously going to have to try beef tips. They keep appearing in my life and looking so yummy! I have never eaten them before but that will soon change. This is how I make my roasts though and it's fabulous, always. Thank you!

I see the recipe says it can cook for 6-8 hours… can it go longer? I tend to favor recipes that can go for 9-10 hours since I need to factor in travel time to/from work. Do you think the additional time would negatively affect the dish?

Patsy – I really don't think it will be a problem. I will say that I haven't ever let it go that long but I just can't see how it would hurt. If your beef tips are fairly small to begin with, they will tend to shrink up quite a bit during the cooking process. You may just want to put in a tad more beef broth. Also, just give it a good stir when you get home, before serving. Hope this helps, let me know how it goes!

This is one of my favorite things to cook in my slow cooker. Actually I don't have all that many recipes that I make in my slow cooker so I am always on the lookout for good ones. Slow cookers sure do make life easier on those busy weeknights. Thanks for sharing your recipe. I've been looking through some of your recent posts and am enjoying the recipes. Glad I found your blog today. I'm adding myself to your list of followers 🙂Til Next Time, Jenn

I just finished up dinner and I used this recipe. To describe it in one word…WOW. one of the best slow cooker beef roast recipes I have ever made!! I used sirloin tip roast meat.I did make one little adjustment: before putting roast into slow cooker, sprinkle both sides with some salt, pepper and garlic powder and rub into meat with your hand.I served with red skin mashed potatoes, peas and dinner rolls. Finished off with strawberry pound cake.DELICIOUS

Hi Ruth! So happy this was a winner for ya! Thank you so much for coming back to let me know how it turned out. This is definitely a regular favorite in our house. Good idea about seasoning the meat too! 🙂 ~Brandie

I'm soooo happy I found this blog! I made these beef tips last night and they were fabulous! My husband hates mushrooms but I decided to sneak in cream of mushroom soup anyway. I held my breath for his first bite and he loved it!!! He still has no idea it has mushrooms! I'm making your chicken nuggets tonight!! Thank you 🙂

Kristen, my husband didn't know either until he saw the recipe posted later on this blog. Haaa! He does not like anything mushroom but he had no clue! Your comment made me giggle. So happy you loved this one! I hope you find lots more recipes that you love!

I made these tonight. I used 3 pounds of stew meat and browned it before adding it to the crock pot. I doubled everything else and it came out so delicious. I'm sending the leftovers over to my in-laws house in the morning, I'm sure they will love it, too.

Brandie — This is going in my crock pot as we speak. I had the tail end of a London Broil that I cut up bite sized and used. The smell alone is enough to send anybody into hunger spasms. It smells wonderful. I think I'll serve over egg noodles, but potatoes sound good too.. At any rate, I'll let you know how Hubs likes it….Also there's a little joint down the road that serves beef tips and gravy with get this, Steak Fries.

Wonderful! Wonderful! I've made it with Chuck Roast, london broil and sirloin tips I think it was called. I'm going to make it ahead and freeze to take on an RV trip. I'll just make noodles fresh at the campsite and pull the beef out of the freezer! EASY! Thanks for sharing!

I ran across this recipe yesterday and it is in my crock pot today! Thank you so much for your recipes! I have been looking for some good crock pot recipes since I work night shift and my husband works days. I can put dinner on when I get home in the morning and he can eat a good dinner when he gets home at night!! Thanks again for sharing!!!

Just mix a heaping tsp of corn starch with just a little cold water. Pour in crock pot about an hr before serving, thickens right up. No need to take everything out and dirty a pan just to put everything back. I do this all the time to thicken stuff in the crock pot!

I have a kid who really does not like mushrooms. Not the taste – the texture. I ignored it for years but he's so good about eating other things, I decided it really was an aversion. I don't like some food stuffs either. I mixed the broth in the mushroom soup and strained it. It was easy. He loved the beef tips and was grateful I took the extra time.